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The original cd edition of this album contains a song called Pleasure Slave, which I normally would include in the database, since it isn't considered a bonus track (even though it wasn't included on the vinyl edition). But I just couldn't do that; I'm not easily offended, but I find the lyrics to Pleasure Slave so offensive, that I just didn't want to tarnish the database with such utter crap.)[ML, 2012-05-22]

Build a fire a thousand miles away
to light my long way home
I ride a comet
My trail is long to stay
Silence is a heavy stone
I fight the world and take all they can give
There are times my heart hangs low
Born to walk against the wind
Born to hear my name
No matter where I stand I'm alone

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
I'm not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel

Burn the bridge behind you
Leave no retreat
There's only one way home
Those who laugh and crowd the path
and cut each other's throats
Will fall like melting snow
They'll watch us rise with fire in our eyes
They'll bow their heads
Their hearts will hang low
Then we'll laugh and they will kneel
and know this heart of steel was
Too hard to break
Too hard to hold

Stand and fight
Live by your heart
Always one more try
I'm not afraid to die
Stand and fight
Say what you feel
Born with a heart of steel

Brothers I am calling from the valley of the kings
With nothing to atone
A dark march lies ahead, together we will ride
Like thunder from the sky
May your sword stay wet like a young girl in her pride
Hold your hammers high

Blood and death are waiting like a raven in the sky
I was born to die
Hear me while I live as I look into your eyes
None shall hear a lie
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill

My father was a wolf, I'm a kinsman of the slain
Sworn to rise again
I will bring salvation, punishment and pain
The hammer of hate is our faith
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill

Rip their flesh
Burn their hearts
Stab them in the eyes
Rape their women as they cry
Kill their servants
Burn their homes
Till there's no blood left to spill
Hail and Kill
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill

Grandfather, tell my a story!
Alright, go and get your storybook.
No, No, not one of those, a real story!
A real story?
Yes, tell me about when you were a boy.
Well, then, I shall have to take you back with me, a long way in time...

"It was my thirteenth year on a cold winter's day, as I walked through the enchanted forest, I heard the sound of horses, and men at arms, I felt compelled to walk on and find the place of these sounds, and when the forest did clear I was standing on a hill before me the armies of the worlds standing, waiting. I thought to myself, for whom or for what are they waiting? Suddenly a gust of wind came up from the North, there appeared a lone rider, holding a sword of steel, then from the south came another, bearing a battle ax, from the east came a third holding a spiked club, and finally from the west, a rider who weilded a great hammer of war. With them came their soldiers of death, followed by an Army of Immortals. They were few in number but the look in their eyes told all who beheld them that they would leave this day only in victory or death. And there was a great silence...

My heart began to pound, storm clouds filled the sky with darkness, rain came, and the four winds blew with such anger that I held fast to a tree. I watched the four riders raise their weapons into the air. Without warning, screaming their war cry they led the attack, down to the battle they rode, they met the armies of the world with a mighty clash! I could feel the ground shake, the earth drank much blood that day. Each of the four, was unto himself, a whirlwind of doom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When the smoke did clear, many thousands were dead. There was much blood and gore. Their bodies lay broken and scattered across the battlefield like brown leaves blown by the wind. And I saw the four ride together to the top of the hill, while below them the soldiers of death assembled, all those who would now swear allegiance to them.

And the four spoke the words of the Warrior's Prayer.

GODS OF WAR I CALL YOU, MY SWORD IS BY MY SIDE.
I SEEK A LIFE OF HONOR, FREE FROM ALL FALSE PRIDE.
I WILL CRACK THE WHIP WITH A BOLD MIGHTY HAIL.
COVER ME WITH DEATH IF I SHOULD EVER FAIL.
GLORY, MAJESTY, UNITY
HAIL, HAIL, HAIL.

And as I stood and looked on, I heard the armies of the world hail them without end, and their voices of victory carried long and far throughout the land!"

Well, that's it, did you like the story?
Yeah, it was great!
Oh good, I'm glad. Now off to bed with you.
Grandfather?
Yes?
Who were those four men?
Who were they?
THEY WERE THE METAL KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brothers the battle is raging, choose your side
Sing with us the BATTLE HYMS, INTO GLORY RIDE
HAIL TO ENGLAND, THE SIGN OF THE HAMMER's our guide
Forever we're FIGHTING THE WORLD side by side

On a crusade
The world we bring
Four Kings of Metal
Four Metal Kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
'Till the blood on your hand is the blood of a king

Our armies in England, Scotland, and Wales
Our brothers in Belgium, Holland and France will not fail
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy
Switzerland, Austria, back to the glory of Germany

On a crusade
The world we bring
Four Kings of Metal
Four Metal Kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
'Till the blood on your hand is the blood of a king

Sound the DEATH TONE on our MARCH FOR REVENGE
Spill THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES, THE OATH of a friend
Fight the HOLY WAR for THE CROWN AND THE RING
Six magic circles made by the BLOOD OF THE KINGS

Wherever we ride
It's metal we bring
Four Kings of Metal
Four Metal Kings
Death to the false ones
Dance on a string
'Till the blood on your sword is the blood of a king
'Till the blood on your hand is the blood of a king
Blood of a king